950mg a day habit and how I managed to kick it.
i was taking around 950 mg of 7oh a day. Used quickMD and got 14 8mg sub / 2mg nalaxone that same day. I waited almost 24 hours after my last dose of 7oh to take my first sub. The doctor told me you might need to take all 3 in order to stabilize since I was taking such a high dose of 7oh and he was right.
I took my last dose monday night at 8pm and Tuesday night I was in wds and took my first strip at 8pm and it took about an hour or two but it took away a good chunk of my WDs. Ended up falling asleep after the first strip kicked in all the way and woke back up at around 12 in strong Wds so I took another strip but this time I couldnt go back to sleep. Those two strips took away 75% of my wds and when I took the third one I felt decent after an hour or two and was even able to sleep a bit that night.
Woke up Wednesday morning and didn't feel bad, but I didn't feel good either. I had to get used to not feeling artificially good which is a whole different story in and of itself.
Even after those 3 8mg strips that I took within 6 hours of each other I still wasn't stabilized. I took another strip at around 1pm on that Wednesday and that seemed to help tremendously.
Wednesday night I ended up taking another strip along with some comfort meds to help me sleep and I managed to get about 4 hours of sleep which I considered a win.
Thursday, Friday, and Saturday I took a whole strip in the morning and a whole strip around 7 pm.
It was Sunday that I noticed a change. I took my 8mg suboxone strip that morning and by 11 I felt different, sort of wired or fried. I determined that I was on too high of a sub dose since I had worked through the main part of the WDs before and felt fine but now that the worst of the 7oh WDs were gone I didn't need as much. That night I cut the strip in half and it worked just fine. I started taking half of my normal dose of 8mg for the next 2 days and then for two days I took half of that, so on and so forth. When I got to the point of taking one 0.5 mg strip in the morning and another at night I stayed at that dose for a few days and then stopped the subs altogether and I felt fine.
That last sentence is what I want to focus on here. The whole time after I stabilized I felt just "fine". Not good, not bad, just fine, just okay. Getting used to not being high and just feeling "fine" was a difficult mental battle.
It's been a few weeks and the only fallout from taking the suboxone is me not sleeping great for a couple days after my last dose but I still counted myself lucky to have gotten any sleep at all even if it was just 4 to 5 may be 6 hours a night.
I had to fight to get myself to eat anything and I drank a lot of those meal replacement drinks during this process. Used a lot of pedialyte.
I still get cravings but I made my mind up a while ago to stop so those aren't a big deal.